Thursday, November 24, 2011

Romney Reluctance

The prolific sage of the San Joaquin, Victor Davis Hanson, has written a charming and largely accurate assessment of the GOP's reluctance to nominate Mitt Romney. The article appears in National Review Online and is entirely worth your time. I wish I could write as well as VDH does.

Hanson concludes we are reluctant to nominate Romney because we worry that:
A moderate President Romney would prove a reach-out centrist — spending borrowed money like George W. Bush did on No Child Left Behind or the Medicare drug benefit, thereby ruining for good the now-suspect Republican brand of fiscal sobriety.
Living for the past decade or more in a largely LDS community has shown me Mormons do believe in pitching in to aid the less fortunate. So the concern seems realistic.

At this point it isn't clear that we have an electable alternative to Mitt.